Re: UDC (was Re: 3.5 DRIVES / IIE(400k drives)

[marc@cxr_rs6000.med.ge.com (Marc Wolfgram)]

David Wilson writes:
>I used to run an old Mac 800k drive (M0131) on my UDC and while it did work
>it was dreadfully slow (9 minutes to scan a disk). I bought a 3rd party Mac
>compatible drive and this is 6 times faster.

I helped someone setup some Apple 3.5 drives (a'la GS) on two Apple //e systems
via CPS UDC cards... dreadfully slow doesn't come close to describing the drive
performance on the UDC.  File copy (with Copy II Plus) of an AppleWorks backup
disk took more than 25 minutes to copy... the Main Dictionary file took more
than 10 minutes all by itself.  Needless to say, the UDC cards were exchanged
for Apple 3.5 controllers, and performance is on par with a 1mhz GS.

Marc Wolfgram
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